The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-09-06
FLORIBEL
Views the Fashions and Other
Fancies at a Season Hop
A Count i'm Disguise
Her Escape, Etc.

Her Escape, Etc.
Boston, Mass, Sept. 1.-lCorres.
pondence of the BAzoo]-I am so
glad that nv name is not enrolled
now upon the clubs book that I
scarcely know what to do. L am
myself, 1 know, but the many feel
lngs 1 experience is what puzzles me.
At times | really suffer, and then
again / am so inflated W itn joy that
the whole world seems to me para
disc. While undergoing these pains
of mental affiiction, this sphere seems
ODDLY strange and everything amiss /;
bnt when the clouds of darkness pass
away and sunshine breaks forth in all
its beauty 1 feel excellent. grandly
well. And 80 it is this morning, my
heart is as light and gay as the merry
lark. Do not think | have been a
sufferer long, else you will be mistaken.
From the earliest days of my child
hood up to some months ago trouble
was a perfect stranger to me, but time
changes all things and so my lot was
cast to undergo the most painful of all
Affections that a young girl can posi-
bly, withstand
HEART DISEASE.
Of course you want to know all
about it, and of course | am going to
tell you, but before | proceed further
| intend breaking the suspense which
feel is weighing upon you. My
heart trouble is not linked with any
silver chords of love-It is really
heart disease at least our
family physician says so-and grow
so nervous at the thought sometimes
that 1 am afraid that | never shall see
Harry again. Now Harry is an old
friend of mine and that is all. We
went to school together for years but,
years have passed since | last saw
him, therefore, let him pass, at least
for this time.
In order to acquaint you with my
self since my heart became impaired /
must introduce you to several of my
lady friends. 1t is said that "many
are the men who would rather dye
than have gray whiskers" and | believe
that many are the girls who would
rather have heart disease than the
names of some of our sex. The names
of the trio whom | will introduce are
not very pretty, yet in person they
are stylish and attractive. Some
months ago they, three in number
Mollie Toodwinkle, Esther Jane Bluff.
fers and Susannah Nj. L. Smithers,
Wis ted me, and after Enthusiastically
the tongue route-tho many current
fancies of the day, our conversation
drifted on fashions" and then upon
the "club," in fact these topics were
discussed almost inseparsbly, for the
reason the club is
FASHIONABLE INSTITUTION.
For months previous to my accept
ance l was approached almost every
week with view of my becoming a
member. They praised il so highly.
and were so steadfast in persuasion,
that 1 yielded, and in the month of
March nv name was placed upon
their tinted roll book, and | became
member of the Y. l.. F. c., a club
organized by, and for our. sex only.
1t is a model club. Gentlemen are
not allowed at the meetings under
any circumstances, but there are times
when they meet with us. The club
has an enrolment of thirty-fve
names, and at each season of the year
spring, summer, autumn and win
ter these dear, sweet girls enjoy
what is called "season hop" and on
these occasions only, gentlemen are
permitted to enjoy their society-be-
ing admitted by invitation. The
girls are all quite young and of the
best families in quiet little city in
the New England states. The oldest
one is in her twentieth year while
the youngest is sixteen. Now
you can imagine just what
a time they have when they meet to-
gether.
Their meetings are every Tuesday
evening. They commence business at
8 o'clock and at 10 sharp everything
is still and quiet. They have the
usual officers of any literary society
with the exception of two additions
inspector" and
'BoUNCER."
The duty of the former Is to notice
the attirement of the members and if
any defect is noticeable the same is re-
ported to the president, who requests
the latter to perform the bouncing act
UPON the unfortunate one, she being